Figures 9.4


Underside of the thorax of the beetle Henoticus serratus (Coleoptera: Cryptophagidae) showing the depressions, called mycangia, which the beetle uses to transport fungal material that inoculates new substrate on recently burnt wood.
Figures 9.4. Underside of the thorax of the beetle Henoticus serratus (Coleoptera: Cryptophagidae) showing the depressions, called mycangia, which the beetle uses to transport fungal material that inoculates new substrate on recently burnt wood.

(After drawing by Göran Sahlén in Wikars 1997)

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